False diagnoses are used to mask inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs on patients with dementia, a practice called chemical restraint, a government watchdog report said.

Bridgewater is the nation’s only forensic psychiatric facility run by a corrections department, rather than a state mental ...

A psychiatric medical institution processed 53 patients who were not capable of writing their own admission consent forms as voluntary admissions, unfairly restricting their right to be discharged and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A double amputee died at MetroHealth Medical Center in May after being restrained by officers who ignored her 23 pleas of “I can’t breathe,” according to attorneys representing Tasha ...

Tasha Grant said the words until she could speak them no more. “I can’t breathe,” she repeated 23 times to MetroHealth Medical Center staff, three hospital police officers and the sheriff’s deputy ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...

Here is what 308,784 voters saw on the November 2021 ballot, which banned the use of leg restraints in hospital emergency rooms: “Shall the Allegheny Code Chapter 205, Allegheny County Jail be amended ...

The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...